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METALLIC SHEETING FOR SIDING OR ROOFING.

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UNITED STATES LONGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OFONE- PATENT ()FFICE.

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METALLIC SHEETING FOR SIDING AND ROOFING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,659, datedSeptember 2'7, 188' Application filed January 10, 1887. Serial No.223.857. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoNeLEY Lnwrs SAGEN- DORPH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county ofHamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Metallic Sheeting for Siding and Roofing, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the advantages resulting fromtheir use, conj ointly or otherwise, will be fully apparent from thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a front elevation of a sheet and a part of another sheet ofmetallic weather-boarding united together and attached to the studdingof the frame of a building and embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is aview in perspective of the complete sheet shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is anedge view of such a sheet united to the sheet above it by aninterlocking joint, and likewise to the sheet below by a similar joint,and showing a studding or beam broken away to illustrate the method ofsecuring the joint to said studding or beam. Fig. 4 is an enlarged edgeview of one of the joints and studding or beam shown in Fig. 3, thestudding or beam being broken away for the same purpose as in Fig. 3.Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of a shingle roof to a part of which themetallic sheets made and united according to my invention are attached.

The material is prepared in sheets from sheets of metal such as areemployed in making metallic roofing. Each sheet is corrugated, so as topresent in general the appearance of the surface of a series of adjacentweatherboards as applied to a building, substantially as shown in Figs.1, 2, and 5. Each corrugation presents two faces, a broad face, a, andanarrow face, b. These two faces unite at an angle so acute that when thesheet is applied to the side of a building or to a sloping roof thenarrow face I) slopes downwardly and outwardly as well as the face a. Inmaterial intended for use on the sides of buildings the angle betweenthe faces a and b need not be so acute as when the material is to beused on roofs; but in either case the angle gshould be below the angleformed by the face I) and the next adjacent face a. The upper and lowercorrugation of each sheet are incomplete, each terminating in a portionof a face a, the upper edge forming the lip c, and the lower edgeforming the lip d. This construction renders the sheets reversible; butwhen it is not desired to have the sheets reversible the lip 0 may beomitted.

In joining the sheets they are united, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, withthe upper partial corrugation of the lower sheetlocked into and overthelowest face I) of the upper plate. At the joint e the nails f aredriven into the frame-work of the building. Where the end of one ofthese sheets of weather boarding.

overlaps another, as illustrated in Fig. 5, the nail at the adjacentends of the sheet at the joint e preferably passes through the fourthicknesses or sheets of metal and draws them closely together, makingthe lap perfect and the joint very tight. It may be here remarked thatthe weather-boarding will usually be placed so that the corrugations runhorizontal, as is the casein ordinary weather-boarding.

As already described, and as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the outer edge, 9,extends lower down than the joint 6, and completely overlaps the nailsf. This overlapping of the outer edge, 9, serves two objects, viz: Ithides the nails, and, what is more important, it protects them from theweather. The overlapping edge prevents the rainfrom reaching the joint 6in its direct course, and the rain which falls upon the faces a dripsoff at the outer edge, 9, as the upwardly-inclined faces I) present acomplete bar to its running inward to the joints 6.

When it is considered that the chief difficulties and disadvantages ofmetallic weatherboarding arise from the rusting which occurs at thepoints where the nails are driven through to secure the weather-boardingto the frame-work of the building, as well as in the leakage whichoccurs at these points, the importance of protecting the nails fromrainwill be apparent, and the advantages resulting from theconstruction'set forth will at once be plain.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Asheet of metallic weather-boarding hav- ICC ing the outer edges ofthe corrugations over- The combination of two sheets of metallic lappingand projecting lower down than the weather-boarding, each sheet havingcorrugainner edges, substantially as and for the purtions, saidcorrugations having faces a and b, poses specified. 1 each sheet havinglips c and d, the said com- 15 5 2. Asheet ofmetallicweathenboardingprobination having; the joint e higher than the vidcd with a series ofcorrugations each havedge 9, substantially as and for the purposes ing abroad face, a, and a narrow face, I), the specified.

two faces being so related that both project LOXGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH.downwardlyand outwardly when applied to a Attest: [0 building,substantially as and for the purposes \V. I. GULICK,

specified. A. L. HERRLINGER.

